I have not used Python before, but believe it may be what I need. I have large text files containing text, numbers, and junk. I want to delete large chunks process other bits, etc, much like I'd do in an editor, but want to do it automatically. I have a set of generic rules that my fingers follow to process these files, which all follow a similar template.
Question: can I translate these types of rules into programmatical constructs that Python can use to process these files? Can Python do the trick? ferrad -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
